Agricultural land percentage data tracks the share of a country's total land area used for arable farming, permanent crops, and permanent pastures. The dataset is compiled by the World Bank from FAO definitions and is part of the World Development Indicators. It provides a standardized metric for comparing land use across nations and years.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between agricultural land percentage and GDP per capita over time.
- Forecasting future land-use trends based on historical agricultural land percentage data.
- Analyzing correlations between agricultural land percentage and other environmental indicators like forest cover.
- Training classifiers to predict a country's development stage based on its agricultural land percentage time series.
Strengths
- Data adheres to standardized FAO definitions for arable land, permanent crops, and permanent pastures.
- Provides a consistent longitudinal metric for cross-country comparison.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Data may have gaps for certain countries or years.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) definitions and national statistics.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global, country-level.